Examples
“I took a cab to the airport and arranged to fly what they called the red-eye from Los Angeles to Boston.”
“Pork chops, green beans, red potatoes, and something called red-eye gravy that she makes out of coffee and pork fat.”
“And then there was the woman who hummed for five hours on a red-eye from Seattle to Boston.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Mandel: Top Secret Tips For Keeping Seatmates Away
“Virgin America uses 12 different color schemes, reflecting light outside the plane—darker colors at night, brighter during the day, and transitions to awaken passengers on red-eye flights.”
“Three months later, I was seated in row twenty-one on the red-eye to New York, waiting for my Vassar adventure to begin.”
“Within days, Brin, Page, and Drummond were on a red-eye to Washington, D.C., to make a morning meeting with Billington.”
“And yet in a game of modest quality it was the Bears – who flew in on a Thursday night-Friday morning red-eye – who were able to play at something closer to their usual levels.”
The Guardian: NFL: Chicago Bears beat Tampa Bay to dispirit Glazers at Wembley
“We have flown Continental's red-eye into Houston and been in Cancun in the morning.”
“In May of 1988 I took a red-eye from Houston to London, where I planned to attend several performances before heading south to the Brighton Festival.”
The Huffington Post: George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘red-eye’.
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FUN - fish can be...
Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
arc-eye, U-mark, U-spot, X-ray, Y-prickleback, ox-eyed, big-claw, big-eye, big-eyed, big-head, big-lip, big-scale and 509 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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red phrases /words
how red is used
red bag, red ant, red-armed, red ale, red alert, red alder, on red, red adder, in red, in the red, bushy red mint, California red scale and 764 more...
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Australian cicadas
cicadas from the land downunder
around 200cicada, black prince, double drummer, green Monday, greengrocer, Union Jack, yellow Monday, floury baker, red-eye, cherry nose, brown baker, whisky drinker and 14 more...
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Digital Photography
red-eye, center-weighted, matrix metering, cmos sensor, burst mode, slow synchro, rear-curtain sync, forced flash, strobes, pre-strobe, hot shoe, fill flash and 102 more...
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Now Boarding
airline, plane, aircraft, passenger, ticket, boarding pass, reservation, pilot, steward, stewardess, flight attendant, air hostess and 38 more...
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Colour my Wordie!
Words and short phrases with colour names in them
blackguard, black box, black market, blue moon, blue-collar worker, true-blue, blue-blooded, pink slip, tickled pink, pink elephant, white elephant, white gold and 81 more...
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Moonshine
screech, moonshine, hooch, rotgut, firewater, bootleg, red-eye, sauce, varnish, mountain dew, sly grog, poteen and 30 more...
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Visionaries
This is an attempt to collect words that either have to do with sight/vision in an interesting way or whose etymology relates to sight.
inveigle, inoculate, supercilious, red-eye, foresee, hindsight, wise, vivid, voyeurism, speculate
Tweets
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